Which presidential nominee will make it easier for non-targets to break into Wall Street?

Romney: Repeals Dodd-Frank, freeing up the financial sector, which will allow Wall Street to expand and become more profitable ergo allowing Wall Street to hire more people and non-targets.

Obama: Keeps Dodd-Frank and possibly allows more regulation to be put in place. Compensation begins to go down causing target school students to try other industries.This will allow non-targets to break in, albeit at lower compensation than desired.

I can't decide between the two so please answer thoughtfully, as this will be how I base my vote in November.

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Completely unrelated to the issues you've posted. Economic growth is far more important to Wall Street's profitability, and definitely to your job prospects, than anything regulatory.

So, if getting a job in finance is your main motivation in voting, vote for whoever you think will do a better job on the economy. Which will be Obama, because Republicans don't understand the difference between accounting and economics.

Or, continue watching CNBC and thinking regulation actually matters.

 

To answer your question truthfully and honestly - please just shut up. Neither candidate will actually do anything substantive to help. As Drexel said, you want an economic recovery to actually happen if you want to get a job. While I disagree with him that Obama's the better man for the job (and no, I think Romney's a fuckwit too - neither person and neither party know what the fuck they are doing and I don't believe that Romney, as a first termer, or Obama, if reelected, are particularly good for the job), don't base your decision on something so inconsequential as your ability to get a job.

 

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